RE: deerstalkert's post
A near miss, thank goodness, a guy I was shooting with who was loading from horn to measurer to barrel left his horn on the bench stopper out. Shooting from the bench, horn to his right, a spark hit a trickle of powder which burned, flashed, toward the open end of the horn. Why it didn't blow is beyond me, a half pound of powder plus.
Then there's the story of a well know lock maker, from the Denver, CO area I believe, who was working with a flintlock, out of a rifle, that sparked into a box of gear igniting some powder badly burning him. A second hand tale but believable.
Vigilance in working with blackpowder cannot be over stressed.
A near miss, thank goodness, a guy I was shooting with who was loading from horn to measurer to barrel left his horn on the bench stopper out. Shooting from the bench, horn to his right, a spark hit a trickle of powder which burned, flashed, toward the open end of the horn. Why it didn't blow is beyond me, a half pound of powder plus.
Then there's the story of a well know lock maker, from the Denver, CO area I believe, who was working with a flintlock, out of a rifle, that sparked into a box of gear igniting some powder badly burning him. A second hand tale but believable.
Vigilance in working with blackpowder cannot be over stressed.